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I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.
William Golding
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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
Australia
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India
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White
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Salman
Rushdie
Patrick
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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And I've been wearing specs since I was three.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
William Golding
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
William Golding
In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
William Golding
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
William Golding
The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.
William Golding
Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
William Golding
One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
William Golding
The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
William Golding
Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
William Golding
It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
William Golding
One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
William Golding
What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
William Golding
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
William Golding
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
William Golding
A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
William Golding
